Steven’s Notebook

Here’s a shot of the mid-Georgia skyline, filled with springtime pollen.

Yes, the sky really is that green when the trees are doing their springtime thing.

Google Code Prettifier - pretty code is happy code
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Scams: Avoiding fake photography contests

Special K: “One id, one password, very simple.”
(tags: OpenID)

Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » OpenID? Huh?
“this is what gives OpenID its legs. It is as strong, and as weak, as DNS. In other words, it is great for transactions that won’t attract criminal attack, and terrible for those that will.”
(tags: OpenID)

For several years now I’ve been a very happy customer of HostingMatters.com, using them for my family’s sites and recommending them to friends and anyone else that asked. Their service is normally quick, friendly and efficent.
As of early this morning, though, my site was being redirected to a “suspended” page. When my credit card number […]

USA Today, page 1D: Get an earful of the offbeat
The surprise about podcasting isn’t that millions are listening — the surprise is that millions are listening to some pretty arcane stuff.
No, the surprise — a pleasant one — is that a paper which is so mind-numbingly generic, purposefully so in order to reach the […]

I’m still not sure how what sort of productive uses twitter has, but I’m giving it a try.

The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users
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Today I was in downtown Atlanta — at the courthouse for my turn in the Jury Duty box, actually — and during lunch I was thinking it’d be nice if I had my camera with me… when I realized that I did, in a way.
My new phone (at what point is it a smart […]

I’m wondering if any of my friends, family, co-workers, etc. are using twitter, and if so if they’ve found any semi-productive purpose for it.
[added later] Rick K. posted about twitter this weekend.

Despite plenty of administrators’ work, emails from various hardware, software, and service vendors, and even mentions on the morning radio programs, there’s a phrase we’re hearing much more often than usual this morning… “what time is it?”

“No matter where you are in your career, you can listen to people, support them, show compassion.”

Tim Sanders wrote that several years ago in one of my favorite business books, Love is the Killer App. As you might imagine, he’s collected many stories since then about situations where people have made the time to make […]

Sigma’s new f2.8 200-500
Oh.
My.
Goodness.
(tags: photography)

I was in Columbus Georgia during the tornado-inducing storm Thursday night, in fact Mark and I were in an Outback steak house just before the worst of the storm. The power went out just as we were placing our drink orders, and it didn’t look like it was coming back on very quickly, so […]

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